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18-10-2012

BPCL plans one month shutdown at Mumbai refinery to improve yields

State-run Bharat Petroleum Corp plans to shut half its 240,000 barrels per day (bpd) Mumbai refinery for about a month in March-April to improve yields, its refining head BK Dutta said on Wednesday. "There will be some improvement (in distillates yield)... we will be shutting one train," Dutta told Reuters. He said BPCLBSE -0.33 % will be shutting a 120,000 bpd crude unit and associated vacuum distillation unit, and a hydrocracker among other units at the Mumbai refinery in western India. BPCL also operates a 190,000 bpd Kochi refinery. It plans to shut a 90,000 bpd crude unit and a fluid catalytic cracking unit at the Kochi refinery for maintenance for a month from mid-November, Dutta said.

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